LAUSD Cell Phone Ban Expected to Improve Student Scores

Commentary “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” — Chinese Proverb Concern about how different media affect learners goes back thousands of years, as this Chinese proverb shows. An example from Western culture comes from Plato. He wrote in Phaedrus the discovery of the alphabet “will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.” It produces “not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing.”...